太阳城娱乐官网大学科尔尼分校 has 4,244 students who are currently enrolled in at least one 在线课程. 
 
太阳城娱乐官网 is filled with excellent faculty who have mastered this new form of instruction students are demanding, including Assistant Professor and Composition Coordinator of 英语 Dr. Amanda Sladek, who the Office of 研究生学习和学术创新 is recognizing with the 2023 Outstanding Innovation in 在线 Teaching Award.  
 
研究生学习和学术创新办公室于2022年设立了在线教学杰出创新奖，以表彰为超过一半的在线课程学生创建成功的在线课程所需的辛勤工作和奉献精神。  
 
“Dr. Sladek is an exceptional online educator, and we are thrilled to be able to present her with this award,” Dean of 研究生学习和学术创新 Dr. Mark Ellis said. “Her dedication to creating innovative 在线课程work for her students is inspiring.”  
 
Sladek was presented the Outstanding Innovation in 在线 Teaching Award on November 28 at 太阳城娱乐官网’s Center for Teaching Excellence's final Teaching Tuesday event of the year. 

Sladek’s graduate and undergraduate students also applaud her on her outstanding 在线课程s. 
 
Kenna Grove, a Lincoln high school teacher, enrolled in 太阳城娱乐官网’s online 英语 M.A. due to the “convenience of attending graduate school remotely,” but she feared it would be disengaging and heavily focus on independent studies. 
 
Dr. Sladek’s classes proved her wrong. 
 
“Dr. Sladek challenged this misinterpretation of the online classroom through her masterful pedagogy as an instructor, consistently sparking class discourse and critical thinking skills through a variety of approaches,” wrote Grove in her letter of support. 
 
Sladek用来吸引在线学生的方法之一是灵活的作业形式。 
 
“Even in my asynchronous courses, I like to give my students opportunities to connect face-to-face, or as close to it as possible,” Sladek said. “I schedule an optional Zoom meeting during the first week of class to drop in, ask questions, and get to know each other, with a discussion board available for students who prefer to do it that way.” 
 
她在做报告作业时也是这么做的。 学生可以完成录制的演示文稿，并将其提交到讨论板或参加同步Zoom演示会议。 

“I’m a big fan of building in flexibility where I can,” Sladek said. 
 
Sladek还在她的在线课程中建立了灵活性，允许学生根据他们目前的工作或未来的愿望立即使用他们的作业，提供最适合每个学生的多种独特作业，倾听并允许学生创造展示他们知识和技能的替代方式。 
 
可访问性 in 在线课程s is another passion of Sladek’s. 
 
“帆布 has some easy accessibility checkers built in, and there’s a self-paced faculty training course on creating accessible online classes available through 太阳城娱乐官网在线,” Sladek said.  
 
Sladek说，她很荣幸获得该奖项，但太阳城娱乐官网学习设计师Eric Tenkorang，她的教学导师和她的太阳城娱乐官网学生感谢成为她今天的杰出创新在线教育家。 
 
“I learn from them every day,” Sladek said about her students. “They’re the reason I do what I do.”